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BLACKBURN v BORO BIG MATCH FACTS
Blackburn enterain the Boro this afternoon and will be hopeful of achieving their first Premiership double over us since 1990/91 and a ninth of all time.
Mark Hughes' side are aiming to extend their unbeaten home League sequence to eight games, with a fifth home victory on the bounce. Rovers are chasing hard for a Champions League spot and go into the game two places and three points outside the top four.
Half of Boro's eight Premiership visits to Ewood Park have been drawn and two others have been won, including the most recent visit when we enjoyed a superb 4-0 victory on 16th October 2004, courtesy of a Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink hat-trick.
But Blackburn have the upper hand over us at the moment having already beaten us twice this season. The man who did the damage the last time we met, Shefki Kuqi is in top form at the moment , as are his team. Rovers have won three of the last four, all in the Premiership and kept clean sheets in each of the three victories. They've won nine of the fourteen League matches played since early December.
Blackburn have the worst disciplinary record in the Premiership this season with a total of sixty-two cards - four red and fifty-eight yellow - although Zura Khizanishvili's red card against Liverpool was later rescinded.
The Lancastrians are currently on the longest current Premiership run without a score draw of thirty-two matches. The last was the 1-1 result at West Brom on 26th April last year. They have also completed eight League games since their last goalless draw which was at home to Bolton on 14th January.
Mark Viduka needs one goal to total 100 in English and Scottish League football and Yakuba is a brace shy of fifty English League goals in total.
Rovers have several players in line for milestones including ex-Boro player Andy Todd who will be making his 100th appearance in a Blackburn shirt, if he plays. Brett EMERTON will be making his 100th Premiership appearance for Blackburn, along with Ryan Nelson making his 50th and Tugay his 150th Premiership appearance - all for Blackburn.
Boro need to score five times to total 500 Premiership goals of all time. Defeat would be our 100th away from home in Premier League history.
Boro and Blackburn have met fifty-two times at Blackburn with Rovers having been triumphant twenty-six times and Boro on winning on eleven occasions. In total Blackburn have recorded fourty-five wins over Boro. We have beaten them thirty-four times with twenty-six matches ending in draws.
Today's referee if Chris Foy of St Helens.
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